US Secretary of Defense Pete HegSeth released Lt Gen Jeffrey Krus, whose initial assessment of the agency’s intelligence services about Iranian nuclear sites angry President Donald Trump.
According to the Associated Press (AP), quotes of two people who are with the decision and official of the White House, Krus will no longer serve as the head of the US Defense Intelligence agency.
Hegseth also reportedly fired Vice President ADM Nancy Lacore, a naval reserve chief, and the back of the ADM Milton Sands, an officer of the Navy Seal, who oversees the naval special war command.
There were no reasons for their shooting, the latest in a number of steps focused on military leaders, intelligence officials and other perceived critics of Trump who demanded loyalty through government.
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This week, the administration also deprived security clearances from other current and former national security officials.
Together, the movements could cool down disagreement and send a signal against the conclusions in contradiction with Trump’s interests.
Krus’s fire comes two months after the details of the preliminary assessment of the American air strikes against Iran escaped into the media.
It was found that the Iranian nuclear program was returned by military efforts for only a few months, which is contrary to the claims of Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
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The Republican President, who declared the Iranian program “completely and fully smoothed”, rejected the report. His frequently repeated criticism of Die’s analysis was based on his long -term distrust in the evaluation of intelligence information, including the fact that in 2017 it was published, which stated that Russia was hit in 2016 elections.
The Office of the Director of the National Intelligence Information is responsible for coordinating the work of 18 intelligence agencies, including DIA-OPERATIONAL OLD DOCUMENTS to question these previous findings.
After the June strikes at three Iranian nuclear places, HegSeth harassed the press to focus on preliminary assessment, but did not offer any direct evidence of the destruction of the device.
“You want to call it destroyed, you want to call it losers, you want to call it smoothed – choose your word. That was a historically successful attack,” HegSeth said at that time at a press conference.
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While the Pentagon did not provide any details of the shooting, the Democrats in the Congress caused an alarm over the precedent, which Krushe’s released sets for the intelligence community.
“The burning of another higher national security officer underlines the dangerous habit of Trump’s administration as a loyalty test rather than a guarantee for our country,” said Mark Warner of Virginia, Vice -Chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
Rep Jim Himes of Connecticut, the Supreme Democrat in the news board of House, called on administration to show why Krus was released, or “otherwise we can only assume that this is another politically motivated decision to create an atmosphere of fear” within the intelligence community.
Trump has the history of removal of government officials whose data and analysis disagree. At the beginning of this month, after a report on a miserable job, the official fired responsible for the data.
His administration also ceased to publish climate change reports, canceled the vaccine access study, and removed the data on gender identity from government sites.
New fires culminated in a week of changes in the wide administration of Trump in the intelligence community and new vibrations on the military leadership.
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This week, the Director of the National Intelligence Director announced that it would reduce its employees and budgets and abolish more security screenings, a tactic used by the administration used against those it considers enemies. The Pentagon also said that the highest uniformed air force officer, the gene of David Allvin, planned to retire two years earlier.
Hegset and Trump were aggressive in the release of the best military officials, often without a formal explanation.
The administration burned the Air Force Gen CQ Brown JR as chairman of the common chiefs of the staff, as well as the Supreme Navy officer, the second Supreme Air Force Officer and the highest lawyers for three branches of military services.
In April, HegSeth rejected the gene of Tim Haughah as the head of the National Security Agency and Vice President ADM Shoshana Chatfield, who was a head of NATO official.
The Pentagon for none of the fire provided any public explanations, although some of the officers believed that the administration supports the programs of diversity, justice and inclusion. Trump demanded government agencies to clear Dei’s efforts.
Osters Kruus, Lacore and Sands were previously reported Washington Post.
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